Year in Review
Transforming Research Culture
GLOBAL ARTS + HUMANITIES
CROSS-DISCIPLINARY
Contents
Director (Global Arts + Humanities)
“We might think of the cross-disciplinary opportunities and spaces that the Global Arts + Humanities creates as in-between spaces — as spaces of relationship. To focus on the in-between is not to devalue what distinguishes us, such as our disciplinary orientations, nor to idealize collaboration, but to negotiate forms of engagement and elevate our shared potential.”
The Potential of the In-Between
Letter from the Director
As a university-level initiative, the Global Arts + Humanities (GAH) invests in creative and humanistic approaches to critical societal challenges and solutions. It formalizes the university’s commitment to fostering an institutional ecology of collaboration and serves as an integral facilitative resource and bridging mechanism for cross-disciplinary work across campuses, colleges, departments, centers and institutes. GAH has helped elevate Ohio State’s status as a national leader in the integrated arts and humanities and made a significant impact in transforming research culture at the university.
The Global Arts + Humanities has transformed research culture by creating opportunities for collaborative knowledge-making and reorienting research to the collective potential of those who come together to address shared questions and concerns. Our team fellowships and research grants, field schools and symposia create opportunities for faculty and students across the disciplines and community members with diverse experiences to
gather around seminar tables, to engage as interlocutors in digital dialogues and symposia and to co-write and contribute to collaborative publications.
We might think of these opportunities and the cross-disciplinary spaces they create as in-between spaces. Cross-disciplinary spaces call forth forms of critical engagement focused on what emerges between us as a community as well as what lies within us as individuals. In-between spaces have been theorized by scholars across the disciplines as third spaces, interstitial spaces, dialogic spaces, deliberative spaces vital to civic engagement, and coalitional spaces that invigorate social action. In-between spaces are spaces of relationship.
Like the seminar tables around which we gather, what is in-between us both connects and separates us. To focus on the in-between therefore is not to devalue what distinguishes us, such as our disciplinary expertise, but to demystify disciplinary assumptions and norms. To focus on the in-between is also not to idealize collaboration, as the act of coming together in and of itself does not constitute a generative in-between space. Rather, we might think of the in-between as both a site/space and as a practice, as generative collaborations require continually negotiating productive forms of engagement and elevating our shared potential.
The Global Arts + Humanities has created tools (a card game and a digital platform) to assist cross-disciplinary research teams in demystifying disciplinary protocols, developing meaningful engagements and expanding notions of impact.
I invite you to learn more about the important work that the Global Arts + Humanities has done to transform research culture at Ohio State.
CrossDisciplinarity
The Global Arts + Humanities cross-disciplinary of practice. As our guiding principle, cross-disciplinarity is an umbrella term that encompasses the following approaches:
Multi-
DISCIPLINARITY
incorporates different disciplinary perspectives and methods, which are brought together to address a common problem or issue.
Inter-
DISCIPLINARITY
integrates theoretical frameworks, methods and skills from the involved disciplines throughout the research process.
Trans-
DISCIPLINARITY
creates new conceptual, theoretical, methodological and translational innovations that move beyond disciplinespecific approaches to address a common problem or issue.
Guiding Principles
Mission
The Global Arts + Humanities is the gateway to crossdisciplinary research at The Ohio State University. It invests in creative and humanistic approaches to critical societal challenges and solutions.
Core Goals
RESEARCH Build intellectual community across the university through cross-disciplinary research collaborations.
STUDENT ENGAGEMENT Deepen student engagement in the arts and humanities through cross-disciplinary research, experiential learning and professional development opportunities.
COMMUNITY-ENGAGEMENT Strengthen the university’s capacity for transformative, communityengaged partnerships through creative and humanistic methods and practices.
NATIONAL RECOGNITION Increase Ohio State’s national recognition as a leading land-grant institution and its distinction for excellence in integrated arts and humanities through cross- disciplinary collaborations.
Who We Are
Leadership
LISA FLORMAN | Office of Academic Affairs Vice Provost for the Arts
WENDY S. HESFORD | English Faculty Director
PUJA BATRA-WELLS Associate Director
DANIELLE FOSLER-LUSSIER | Music Director of Imagined Futures Initiative
HASAN KWAME JEFFRIES | History Director of K-12 Interdisciplinary Teaching Institute
STEPHANIE POWER-CARTER | Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellow
CHRISTA B. TESTON | English Faculty Fellow
Staff Members
SIATTA DENNIS-BROWN Program Coordinator, K-12 Interdisciplinary Teaching Institute
BREANNE LEJEUNE
Communications Coordinator
ANNA BOGEN
Graduate Assistant
LARISSA MULDER
Graduate Assistant
Advisory Committee
MOLLIE BLACKBURN | Teaching and Learning
LILIANA GIL | Comparative Studies
JESSICA KANTAROVICH | Linguistics
KYOUNG LEE SWEARINGEN | Design
MARK MORITZ | Anthropology
JARED THORNE | Art
CAPTION: Installation Artist Elizabeth Sugawara leads “Threads of Connection,” an interactive visualization, at GAH’s April 10, 2025, showcase.
Pilot projects
TIMELINE
2015 Provost announces Discovery Theme in liberal arts
2016 OAA awards $1.1M non-recurring cash grant to ASC Division of the Arts and Humanities
2016 Eleven two-year pilot projects funded
2017 Migration, Mobility and Immobility Project selected for ongoing investment
2018 Faculty director appointed
2018 Strategic planning process begins
2018 Faculty advisory committee formed
2018 Two additional pilot projects, Livable Futures and Public Narrative Collaborative, chosen for investment
Faculty-driven areas of investment
2018 Discovery Theme external program review
2018 Program manager hired
2018 Division-wide faculty retreat identifies four areas of research inquiry: Im/Mobility, Methods and Practices, Livability, and Community
2018 Launch of Arts Creation and Discovery Field School grants and Graduate Team Fellows program
2019 Communications coordinator hired
2019 Strategic plan approved by OAA
2019 Launch of two special initiative grants: Indigenous Arts and Humanities; and Race, Ethnicity and Social Justice
Building distinction + capacity
2018— GAHDT faculty cluster hiring program
2020 Three faculty fellows appointed to lead strategic development and Methods Amplifier
2020 K-12 Interdisciplinary Teaching Institute launched
2020 Society of Fellows Program launched
2020 Development of Innovative Interventions Grants Program for COVID-19
2020 Matching Grants on Racial Justice announced
2020 Inception of cross-disciplinary assessment and impact tools
2021 Graduate Professional Development Program launched
Developing sustainable partnerships
2021 Launch of On Possibility book series with the Wexner Center for the Arts and The Ohio State University Press
2022 New K-12 Interdisciplinary Teaching Institute partnership with the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center and Sustainability Institute
2023 Programming with OPEEP
2024 Large grant collaborations with the College of Arts and Sciences Office of Engagement and Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts
2025 Launch of K-12 Interdisciplinary Teaching Institutes summer workshop in collaboration with the College of Education and Human Ecology
Transforming
Transforming Research Culture
The Global Arts + Humanities has transformed research culture by creating opportunities for collaborative knowledge-making and reorienting research to the collective potential of those who come together to address shared questions and concerns. Our team fellowships and research grants, field schools and symposia create opportunities for faculty and students across the disciplines and community members with diverse experiences to gather around seminar tables, to engage as interlocutors in digital dialogues and symposia and to co-write and contribute to collaborative publications.
This Year in Review spotlights:
Enhancing Research Ecologies
Creating Cross-Disciplinary Spaces
Pluralizing Knowledge
Optimizing Collaboration and Impact
Enhancing Research Ecologies
The Global Arts + Humanities’ commitment to cultivating the connections necessary for meaningful research depends on a collaborative ecology. GAH has fostered support for Indigenous studies and Ohio State’s Newark Earthworks Center, which both cultivate robust exchange and continuity, broaden access and grow operations and information systems.
Structures of Exchange
Ancient Indigenous Monuments and Modern Indigenous Art — a collaborative five-day residency project at the Ohio Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks — supported individual projects and offered a scaffolding that fostered intergenerational exchange between Native artists about their ancestral lands and monuments. These arts-based initiatives preserve the legacies of Native practices and constitute new forms of knowing through memory, storytelling and creative expression.
In 2024, The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designated the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks as a World Heritage site – a global recognition that adds further urgency that contemporary Native perspectives and practices be centered in shaping the ongoing stewardship and interpretation of the site.
New Technologies to Broaden Access and Engagement
GAH broadens access to cuttingedge technological infrastructures. Increasingly, technologies such as drone photogrammetry are used to map structures hidden beneath the earth’s surface. The Monuments of Scioto Valley — a project funded through a GAH Arts and Technology grant, for example — proposes to use these technologies to create a traveling exhibit with interactive 3D models that enable visitors to virtually explore the Earthworks. Integrating Indigenous ways of knowing with contemporary digital tools offers transformative opportunities for cultural preservation and education.
Operations and Information Management
Supporting excellence in operations to ensure high standards of academic and administrative integrity is imperative to GAH’s mission. Through a Centers + Institutes grant, GAH funded a postdoctoral position for the Truth and Reconciliation project at the Newark Earthworks Center. The position played a critical role in the development and cataloging of numerous data-sets (treaties, maps, land sales and NAGPRA statistics) for the Newark Earthworks Center – an effort that was designed to build cultural reciprocity.
CAPTION: Reconstruction of the axial moonrise experience, every 18.6 years, and seen from above the Observatory Mound. Image: Courtesy of the University of Cincinnati Center for the Electronic Reconstruction of Historical & Archaeological Sites.
CAPTION: Performance of “Gathering Ground,” which brings together dance elders from the Columbus community and Ohio State dance majors, creating an intergenerational exchange of movement, history and artistry. Choreographed by Afaliah Tribune. Performed at GAH’s April 10, 2025, showcase.
CAPTION: Associate Professor of English and 2021-22 Society of Fellows faculty member Jacob Risinger interacts with Elizabeth Sugawara’s art installation, “Threads of Care,” at GAH’s April 10, 2025, showcase.
Creating CrossDisciplinary Spaces
The Global Arts + Humanities Society of Fellows program formalizes the university’s commitment to fostering an institutional ecology of collaboration by bringing scholars, artists and activists together to share research and creative productions around an annual crossdisciplinary theme.
Collaborative Spaces
The Society of Fellows has transformed research culture at the university by providing faculty and student fellows with collaborative spaces and time to work on their research in a multi-disciplinary context. Fellows meet throughout the year to share their work, participate in programming (e.g., digital dialogues, workshops, symposia) and contribute to the production of a co-edited collection and an end-of-year showcase.
Like the seminar tables, digital zoom rooms and stages around which we gather, what is in-between us both connects and separates us. To value the in-between is neither to devalue what distinguishes us, nor to idealize collaboration as collaborations require the continual negotiation of generative forms of engagement and the elevation of shared potential.
Cross-Disciplinary Publications
On Possibility: Social Change and the Arts + Humanities — a collaborative book series with the Wexner Center for the Arts and The Ohio State University Press — exemplifies one of the many ways that GAH creates opportunities for crossdisciplinary collaborations. Each volume aligns with the annual theme of the Society of Fellows program. This series also builds in opportunities for contributors to shape the collection by identifying common threads across their work through prepublication working groups. The impact of this series includes its contribution to building capacity at the university for cross-disciplinary research and creating an institutional ecology of collaboration.
In June of 2024, The Ohio State University Press released the first volume of the series: Human Rights on the Move Ten Ohio State faculty from seven disciplines contributed to the volume. The approaches to human rights in this wide-ranging collection are “on the move,” emphasizing a nimble, cross-disciplinary approach that considers the spaces inbetween: the intersections of law, politics, culture and the arts. Human Rights on the Move invites us to reimagine human rights at these intersections.
Pluralizing Knowledge
The Global Arts + Humanities’ support for archival research has been transformative in capturing emergent knowledge and illuminating gaps in the historical record, fostering a plurality of voices, histories and narratives.
Dynamic and Adaptive Research
During the COVID-19 pandemic, GAH funded a series of projects through an Innovative Interventions grant to bring the insights and methods of the arts and humanities to respond to the crisis as it was unfolding. A few of these projects include:
Recovery and Resilience built a community-engaged archive of pandemic testimonies to capture the collective mental health toll of the virus. Digital archives offered participatory and decentralized tools for memorializing even the more ineffable dimensions of human experience.
While stay-at-home orders disrupted services and rituals, Religious Sounds in the Age of COVID-19 created a record of how religious life transitioned from physical rituals to virtual worship and how religious institutions responded in a time of profound social upheaval.
The COVID-19 Food Archive created a repository for narratives that reveal how food became a tool for telling stories, finding comfort and connection, and adapting to the shifting landscape of the pandemic.
Fostering Plural Perspectives
Archiving is not only about the immediate act of preservation; it is often retrospective in nature as an effort to reclaim what has been lost, forgotten or obscured by the passing of time.
Picturing Black History — a collaboration between Ohio State’s Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective and Getty Images — makes rarely-seen images of the Black experience visible and provides new context around culturallysignificant moments, broadening our understanding of history.
Another project of critical reclamation that GAH supported is Archiving Black Performance, which addresses a crucial gap in dance by documenting and preserving the performances of Black women dancers.
GAH also supported individual faculty and student researchers studying existing, emergent or newly-imagined archives through its 2022-23 Society of Fellows theme of Archival Imaginations. The fellows focused on historical records as well as social practices — such as spoken language, gestures and rituals — as dynamic components of cultural memory. In this way, the theme engaged modes that expanded existing archives and compelled the creation of new ones.
CAPTION: Dancers perform “Four Corners,” choreographed by Ronald K. Brown and directed by Associate Professor Nyama McCarthy-Brown (Dance). This piece was performed at GAH’s April 10, 2025, showcase.
collabORATE
Optimizing Collaboration and Impact
Cross-disciplinary research is both a process and destination. Successful collaborations must attend to context-dependent factors and processes in addition to outcomes. Standard metrics — like the number of publications, citations, performances, grants and awards — often do not account for the processes that enable such achievements — thus failing to capture the value of each stage of collaboration. The Global Arts + Humanities has developed two tools to facilitate generative cross-disciplinary collaborations and to broaden the scope of what is impactful.
collabORATE helps to translate disciplinary assumptions and practices for use in new contexts and/or applications; promote disciplinary self-awareness about methods and practices; create new conceptual, methodological and theoretical innovations to transform discipline-specific approaches to address common issues; amplify the ability of researchers to reach wider audiences and communicate diverse viewpoints. collabORATE embeds a keen awareness of the ethical and processual in every stage of research.
PROJECT IMPACT is a digital tool that emphasizes qualitative metrics. It is generative and evaluative and can be used at multiple phases of a project by cross-disciplinary teams and individual PIs. Additional uses include assistance with year-end reporting, grant writing, mission statements and envisioning project parameters.
Affiliate Faculty +Fellows
Faculty Cluster Hires
The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme’s cluster-hired faculty bring expertise in community engagement, dance, education reform, gender inequality and global justice, language endangerment, transnational circulation of cultural forms, and science and technology in the Global South. These colleagues join scholarly communities across the university and advance GAH’s commitment to cross-disciplinarity.
JESSICA DELGADO | Associate Professor
Departments of History and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Delgado specializes in the history of women, gender, sexuality, religion and race in Latin America; colonial Catholicism; materiality of devotion; and the intersection between social and spiritual status. She is the author of Troubling Devotion: Laywomen and the Church in Colonial Mexico, 1630-1770
VICTOR ESPINOSA | Assistant Professor Department of Sociology (Newark campus)
Espinosa is a sociologist, ethnographer and curator who researches the intersection of art and transnational migration. He is the author of several books; most recently Performances of Suffering in Latin American Migration: Heroes, Martyrs, and Saints, co-authored with Ana Elena Puga.
PHILLIP GLEISSNER | Associate Professor Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures
Gleissner specializes in the cultures and literatures of socialist Eastern Europe, with an emphasis on print media in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and the GDR. He has authored several books, most recently Resilient Kitchens, co-authored with Harry Eli Kashdan.
LILIANA GIL | Assistant Professor Department of Comparative Studies
Gil specializes in postcolonial and feminist studies of science and technology with a focus on Brazil and its global South connections. Her ongoing research and book project examines how improvisation has been thought of, performed, and valued across a range of sites of technological production.
JESSICA KANTAROVICH | Assistant Professor Department of Linguistics
Kantarovich specializes in language contact, change and variation, with a focus on language ecologies of the Arctic and language endangerment and shift in Siberia. Since 2022, she has also been conducting fieldwork on Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic) in Greenland.
NYAMA McCARTHY-BROWN | Associate Professor Department of Dance
McCarthy-Brown’s research and creative practice is grounded in social justice and community engagement. Much of this research is presented in her book, Dance Pedagogy for a Diverse World: Culturally-Relevant Teaching in Theory, Research and Practice
CORINNE MITSUYE SUGINO | Assistant Professor Department of English and Center for Ethnic Studies
Mitsuye Sugino’s research lies at the intersections of Asian American studies, cultural studies, rhetorical theory and media studies. Her book, Making the Human Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans explores Asian Americans, narrative, and notions of animacy/inanimacy in the racialized construction of the human.
MOMAR NDIAYE | Assistant Professor Department of Dance
Ndiaye has worked with choreographers from Africa, Europe, Asia and America. Since 2010, he has danced for Andreya Ouamba in the Dakarbased company, Premier Temps. With his company, Cadanses, he has toured several staged contemporary dance works.
ASHLEY SMITH-PURVIANCE | Assistant Professor Departments of African and African American Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Smith-Purviance studies how educational policies and institutions shape and reproduce harmful inequalities for Black women and girls. At the intersection of state violence and school discipline, her work examines forms of punishment, anti-Blackness, and gender-based violence.
LYN TJON SOEI LEN | Associate Professor Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Tjon Soei Len’s scholarly interests include contract theory and feminist legal theory as they relate to gender inequality and global justice. This research is presented in her book, Minimum Contract Justice: A Capabilities Perspective on Sweatshops and Consumer Contracts
Society of Fellows Faculty
Multidisciplinary inquiry is built on the strength of disciplinary foundations and comparative skills. The Society of Fellows fosters a multidisciplinary community that supports the synthesis and translation of knowledge across disciplines to critically engage the annual thematic. This year’s theme, Care | Culture | Justice, foregrounds care as an interdisciplinary investigation. It approaches care as a cultural practice that alerts us to the ethical and political obligations that arise from explicit claims of harm and everyday requirements for nutrition, shelter, bodily integrity, education, health and well-being.
The 2024-25 program was facilitated by Leadership Faculty Fellows and Professors Stephanie Power-Carter (Teaching and Learning) and Christa B. Teston (English).
MARTA CASTILHO da SILVA | External Fellow
Politics of Care: Well-Living, Indigenous Futurities, and the Protection of Biodiversity
This project is a collaboration with the Dourados Indigenous Women Association. It will create policy guidelines regarding Indigeneity and the environment and advancing scientific understanding about the use of cultural frameworks based on care.
JANET CHILDERHOSE | College of Medicine (Internal Medicine)
The Overdose Stories
This project will amplify the voices and recommendations of 20 Ohio residents who have experienced a non-fatal drug overdose. It will include the creation of an installation of overdose stories and photographic portraits based on interviews.
NAMIKO KUNIMOTO | History of Art
Urgent Animations
Through analyses of works by contemporary Transpacific artists, this project highlights the lingering present-ness of Japanese Imperialism to press for justice in current-day politics at a time of heightening anti-Asian racism in North America and increasing nationalism in Japan.
ASHLEY HOPE PÉREZ | Comparative Studies
Sustaining Advocacy for Reader’s Rights
This project addresses the harms of book bans. Those invested in censorship and exclusion excel at creating a toxic, hostile environment for authors, educators, students and their allies. This project focuses on weaving an engagement with care into pro-reader advocacy and social justice work.
MARGARET
PRICE | English
Transformative Access: Building Collective Care in Institutional Spaces
This project investigates how acts of care including “transformative access” and “collective accountability” occur in academe. Through building an accessible, publicly-available digital archive and co-authored article, this project emphasizes relational processes and coalitional work that specify access as a form of care.
DAVID RUDERMAN | English (Newark campus)
Poetry in the Fields of Poverty and Addiction
This project builds on a poetry-writing project begun as part of the Day Reporting Program in Newark, Ohio. It involves the curation of a collection of poems by and oral histories of people living with and struggling to recover from substance use disorder and research for a book, Literatures of Addiction
JOHANNA SELLMAN | Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures
Narratives of Care Across Borders in Contemporary Arabic Literature
This project compares contemporary Arabic literary narratives in migrant and post-migrant settings and how they center the natural environment or other ecologies and systems that counter binary notions of belonging and deservingness seen in many border building practices and discourses.
LUCILLE TOTH | French and Italian
Decolonizing Dance/Movement Therapy
This project interrogates the concept and practice of Dance/Movement/Therapy through the lens of decoloniality and proposes a path towards a more global understanding and practice of care through movement. This project links community care to migration and dance and prompts collective inquiry.
AMY YOUNGS | Art
Soil Culture Parade
This project makes this complex ecosystem of soil visible through art, costumes, music and performances. Workshops will include the building of Soil Wagon, a sculptural, wheeled structure that houses a living soil ecosystem and requires collaboration with worms, minerals, waste and a team of human Soil Carers.
Society of Fellows Graduate Team Fellows
The Graduate Team Fellowship Program prepares graduate students in the arts and sciences with an opportunity to gain cross-disciplinary mentorship embedded in a collaborative ecology. To date, the GTF program has supported 55 interdisciplinary scholars.
This one-of-a-kind program provides students for a newly evolving job market – one highly dependent on networks, technology and a collaborative ethos. Graduate fellows meet monthly with GAH faculty mentors, engaging in cross-disciplinary dialogues that provide opportunities for carefully-honed and translatable research descriptions, job talks and public-facing contributions.
This experience builds tolerances for varying academic perspectives, fostering in graduate students a receptivity towards network-based insight building. This fellowship encourages agility in methods and modes, creativity of mind and practice, and intellectual grit.
This year’s program mentor is Society of Fellows Faculty member, Associate Professor Ashley Hope Pérez (Comparative Studies).
ALYSSA BEDROSIAN
PhD Student, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Project Title: Catholic Feminism and the Fight for Abortion Rights
Bedrosian’s dissertation brings together feminist studies and religious studies to examine contemporary Catholic feminism and abortion rights activism and advocacy in the Americas and the construction of a transnational Catholic feminism.
YUJIE CHEN
PhD Student, Department of Dance
Project Title: Relational Embodiment
Chen’s dissertation examines dance practices and everyday actions generated in relation to “tizhi” in mainland China. Tizhi provides a secure source of employment and social welfare for Chinese dancers and divides social space, which renders lives and dance practices outside the system independent, yet precarious.
WILLIAM EVANS
MFA Student, Department of Art
Project Title: A Stitch in Black America
Evans’ project unravels the tensions between Blackness, queerness and national belonging, exposing the paradoxes of patriotism, resistance and survival. Through textiles, constructed forms and reconfigured objects, his work transforms markers of survival into tools of critique.
EKUNDAYO IGELEKE
PhD Student, Department of Comparative Studies
Project Title: New Men Must Be Born
Igeleke’s project explores how culture work and cultural production impact healing modalities deployed through the Black Men Build (BMB) organization. It has three parts: a curated show; quarterly writing workshops; letter writing; and the creation of an abolitionist pedagogical framework.
JENNIFER NUNES
PhD Student, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
Project Title: “A Language Like Calluses”
Nunes’ dissertation explores questions such as: how do migrant worker women poets create communities of care via shared poetics? How do they express the complexities of carework? This project illustrates the importance of poetry in advancing migrant women’s arguments for fair compensation.
ROBIN RAVEN PRICHARD
PhD Student, Department of Dance
Project Title: Paradigms of Care and Justice Through Intertribal Native American Dance
Prichard’s project argues that the Indigenous concept of body sovereignty can be utilized as a paradigm of care that counters harmful colonial models and ideals within oneself, among communities, and in relationships of reciprocity with the earth, including non-human and extra-human entities.
JUSTIN SALGADO
PhD Student, Department of History
Project Title: AIDS on the Margins
Salgado’s dissertation investigates the effects of AIDS in the metropolitan area of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. This project proceeds through five stories that include activism, immigration, queer communities, sex work, religion and drug use. Together, these case studies shed light on the challenges faced by marginalized communities.
Society of Fellows Undergraduate Research Apprentices
The Global Arts + Humanities’ Undergraduate Research Apprenticeships are competitive grants that provide upper-level students the opportunity to be mentored through multidisciplinary approaches to Care | Culture | Justice, to build an intellectual cohort around this theme and to produce research/creative responses to inquiries impelled by these engagements. Awardees develop research and creative projects, and participate in group mentoring sessions, and collaborate with GAH Communications Coordinator, Breanne LeJeune, to translate their research for a public audience. Student webpages are at go.osu.edu/sof-undergraduate
This year’s program mentor is Society of Fellows faculty member, Associate Professor Johanna Sellman (Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures).
CODE BESCHLER
Major: Anthropology Minor: Philosophy
Project Title: An Abridged Disability History of The Ohio State University
Beschler’s research explores the history of disability activism and access at Ohio State, focusing on the dis/connections between institutional and interpersonal care. He examines how and why institutions change approaches to accessibility and emphasizes the value of self-made access, resistance and mutual aid by and for disabled Buckeyes.
MEREDITH CLAY
Major: History Minors: History of Art and French
Project Title: From Legislation to Legacy: Women Shaping Higher Education
Clay’s research examines the historical impact of Title IX on women in higher education, with a focus on systemic barriers — like motherhood, childcare and institutional support. Her research explores key women at three universities and emphasizes the importance of oral histories and storytelling in uncovering overlooked narratives in institutional history.
SHELBY HANTHORN
Major: Pyschology Minor: Human Development and Family Science
Project Title: Suspended Futures: The Impact of Exclusionary Discipline Policies in Education
Hanthorn’s research focuses on disparities in school discipline and how educational systems can better support student growth by prioritizing social and behavioral development alongside academic achievement. Hanthorn aims to promote a more equitable and supportive approach that encourages the success of every student.
Project Directory
Arts Creation Grants
Afro-Latinexperimentations: Social Dance as Social Justice (2024)
Irvin Manuel Gonzalez (Dance) • Alfonso Cervera (Dance)
Exhibition and Education Lab at the Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art (2019)
Kris Paulsen (History of Art)
Into the Void (2019)
Tom Dugdale (Theatre, Film and Media Arts) • Paul Sutter (Columbus-based Composer)
Jardineros: Care’s Repair, Landscape’s Labor (2024)
Michelle Franco (Knowlton School of Architecture) • Erica Levin (History of Art)
La Sape: Transgression or Assimilation (2022)
Kathryn Logan (Dance) • Momar Ndiaye (Dance)
Learning Lichens: A Symbiotic Co-Creation (2024)
Amy Youngs (Art) • Emma Kline (Art and Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology) • Doo-Sung Yoo (Art)
Making Good Trouble (2024)
Joni Boyd Acuff (AAEP) • Nyama McCarthy-Brown (Dance)
#MentalHealthDance2U (2019)
Nena Couch (Dance) • Valarie Williams (Dance)
Micro-Residency Program (2022)
Tanya Berger-Wolf (TDAI) • Kelly Kivland (Wexner Center for the Arts) • Kris Paulsen (History of Art) • Amy Youngs (Art)
Monuments of Scioto Valley (2022)
Beth Blostein (Architecture) • Jacob Boswell (Architecture) • John Low (Comparative Studies) • Bart Overly (Architecture) • Justin Parscher (Architecture)
Performing Afghanistan (2019)
Leslie Ferris (Theatre, Film and Media Arts) • Kevin McClatchy (Theatre, Film and Media Arts) • Janet Parrott (Theatre, Film and Media Arts) • Alam Payind (Theatre, Film and Media Arts)
Taste of Exile (2024)
Illya Mousavijad (Art) • Jeremy Patterson (ACCAD)
Weather Reports You (2019)
Daniel Roberts (History) • Jeanine Thompson (Theatre, Film and Media Arts)
The Woods (2019)
Marc Ainger (Music) • Kyoung Lee Swearingen (Design) • Scott Swearingen (Design)
Centers + Institutes Grants
Advancing Instructional Redesign on-Demand (2020)
Joy Balta (Medicine) • Dir. Kay Halasek (Michael V. Drake Institute) • Melinda Rhodes-DiSalvo (Michael V. Drake Institute) • David Sovic (Michael V. Drake Institute)
Archiving Black Performance: 3x3 (2023)
Crystal Perkins (Dance) • Valarie Williams (Dance)
Archiving Black Performance: Memory, Embodiment and Stages of Being (2020)
Adélékè Adéèko (African and African-American Studies Community Extension Center) • Crystal Perkins (Dance) • Valarie Williams (Dance) • Dir. Larry Williamsom Jr. (Hale Black Cultural Center)
Armed Conflicts and Im/Mobility (2023)
Dir., Angela Brintlinger (Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) • Yana Hashamova (Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures) • Dir., Dorothy Noyes (Mershon Center for International Security Studies)
Asian Futures: A Collaborative Proposal (2019)
Dir. Katherine Borland (Center for Folklore Studies) • Dir. Pranav Jani (South Asian Studies) • Dir., Namiko Kunimoto (Center for Ethnic Studies) • Asst. Dir., Rick Livingston (Humanities Collaboratory) • Dir. Harvey Miller (Center for Urban and Regional Analysis) • Mytheli Sreenivas (History) • Dir. Hugh Urban (Center for the Study of Religion) • Max Woodworth (Geography)
Building Capacity for the Internship Program at the Wexner Center for the Arts (2020)
Dionne Custer-Edwards (Wexner Center for the Arts) • Karen Simonian (Wexner Center for the Arts) co-Interim Executive Dir., Kelly Stevelt (Wexner Center for the Arts)
Building Inclusivity Across and Beyond the Ohio State Community (2023)
Program Dir., Pranav Jani (Asian American Studies) • Dir., Namiko Kunimoto (Center for Ethnic Studies) Program Dir., Paloma Martinez-Cruz (Latino/a Studies) • Asso. Dir., Leila Vieira (Center for Ethnic Studies) Program Dir., Elissa Washuta (American Indian Studies)
Emancipatory Linguistics at Ohio State (2025)
Dir. Octavian Robinson (Center for ASL and Deaf Equity) • Asst. Dir. Kristin Wickham-Saxon (Assistant Professional Practice Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Center for ASL and Deaf Equity)
Environmental History Initiative (EHI) at Ohio State University (2025)
Dir. Nicholas Breyfogle (Goldberg Center) • Jennifer Eaglin (History)
Environmental and Social Justice Arts and Humanities (2020)
Dir., John Brooke (Center for Historical Research) • Dir., Elena Irwin (Sustainability Institute) • Asst. Dir., Rick Livingston (Humanities Collaboratory) • Dir., Piers Norris Turner (Center for Ethics and Human Values) • Interim Executive Dir., Beverly Vandiver (Kirwin Institute)
Expanding Accessibility at the Wex (2023)
Tracie McCambridge (Director of Art & Resilience, WCA) • Helyn Marshall (Accessibility Manager, WCA)
Experimental Archaeology and Medieval-Renaissance Worlds (2019)
Dir., Chris Highley (Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies)
Hiphop Studies in Queer Black Feminism Conference (2020)
Elaine Richardson (Teaching and Learning) • Dir., Larry Williamson Jr. (Hale Black Cultural Center)
Intercultural Competence for Global Citizenship (2020)
Dir., Janice Aski (Center for Languages, Literatures and Cultures)
Jewish Practices Within Multi-ethnic Cultural Reproduction in the Middle East (2025)
Dir. Kathryn Joyce (Center for Ethics and Human Values) • Dir. Hannah Kosstrin (Melton Center for Jewish Studies) • Dir. Joy McCorriston (Middle East Studies Center) • Asso. Dir. Aaron Yarmel (Center for Ethics and Human Values)
K’acha Willaykuna: Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Humanities (2020)
Dir., Maria Palazzi (ACCAD) • Dir., Scott Schwenter (Center for Latin American Studies)
Living Well, Dying Well (2019)
Dir., Katherine Borland (Center for Folklore Studies) • Melissa Curley (Comparative Studies) • Hannibal Hamlin (English) • David Staley (Humanities Collaboratory) • Dir., Hugh Urban (Center for the Study of Religion)
Proposal for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Folklore in the Age of Algorithms and AI (2025)
Dir. Merrill Kaplan (English; Center for Folklore Studies) • Dir. Barry Shank (Comparative Studies and Humanities Institute)
Religion and Psychedelics: Critical, Cross-Cultural, and Cross-Disciplinary (2025)
Hugh B. Urban (Comparative Studies) • Dir. Isaac Weiner (Comparative Studies, Center for the Study of Religion) • Center for Psychadelic Drug Research and Education
Revisioning Folklore Studies in the Academy and the Public Square (2020) American Folklore Society • Dir., Katherine Borland (Center for Folklore Studies)
Together We Are FREE: Feminist Community Engagement in Research and Teaching (2025)
Guisela Latorre (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies) • Alison Norris (College of Public Health Epidemiology) • Mytheli Sreenivas (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies) • Mary Thomas (Professor, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies)
Toward a Digital Humanities Support Network (2020)
Leigh Bonds (OSU Libraries) • Matt Lewis (Translational Data Analytics Institute) • Dir., Maria Palazzi (ACCAD) • David Staley (Humanities Collaboratory)
Toward Truth and Reconciliation: Present-Day Indigenous Peoples in Ohio (2020)
Asso. Dir., Marti Chaatsmith (Newark Earthworks Center) • Stephen Gavazzi (Human Sciences) • Asst. Dir., Rick Livingston (Humanities Collaboratory) • Dir., John N. Low (Newark Earthworks Center) • Brian Snyder (InFACT)
Tuning to Our Environment (2023)
Tanya Calamoneri (Dance) • Dir., Maria Palazzi (ACCAD)
Summer Institute Grants
Desde el Principio: Engaging Parents in their Children’s Learning (2025)
Eugenia Costa-Giomi (School of Music) • Asst. Dir. Leila Vieira (Center for Latin American Studies)
GAHDT Fellows at the DMAC Institute (2020)
Scott DeWitt (English) • John Jones (English) • Liz Miller (English)
Global and Popular Music Summer Youth Camp (2020)
Eugenia Costa-Giomi (Music) • Richard Palese (Music)
Ohio State to Community Dance-Intensive Pipeline (2020)
Nyama McCarthy-Brown (Dance)
Summer Dance Intensive (2023)
Nyama McCarthy-Brown (Dance)
Summer Translation Collaborative (2023)
Dir., Patricia Sieber (T&I Program) • Dir., Ying Zhang (Institute for Chinese Studies)
Voices of Franklinton (2020)
Susan Melsop (Design) • Sébastien Proulx (Design)
Community-Engaged Projects
Anti-Racism and Social Justice Education in the Performing Arts (2021)
Nyama McCarthy-Brown (Dance) • Crystal Michelle Perkins (Dance) • Mindi Rhoades (Teaching and Learning)
¡Aquí se Habla Español! Public Outreach at COSI in Spanish (2019)
Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (Linguistics) • Leslie C. Moore (Linguistics) • Laura Wagner (Psychology)
Be the Street (2019)
Katherine Borland (Comparative Studies) • Moriah Flagler (Theatre, Film and Media Arts)
Being Black / Becoming Black (2021)
Adéléke Adéeko (African and African American Studies / English) • Kwaku Korang (Comparative Studies)
Care, Culture, & Justice as Practice: Authentic Collaborative Community Engagement (2024)
(Grant offered in collaboration with the College of Arts and Sciences Office of Engagement)
Joni Acuff (AAEP) • Terron Banner (Urban Arts Space and AAEP) • Sheri Neale and Marshall Shorts (Maroon Arts Group) • Alice Ragland (Empowering Young Voices)
Drug Prevention at High Schools in the Epicenter of the Opiate Epidemic (2019)
Linda Mizejewski (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies) • Alina Sharafutidinova (City of Columbus Department of Public Safety / Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services)
Equity Framework at the Wexner Center for the Arts (2021)
Dionne Custer-Edwards (Wexner Center for the Arts) • Kelly Stevelt (Wexner Center for the Arts)
Fostering Racial Justice: Teacher Professional Development and Student Learning (2021)
Yana Hashamova (Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures) • Caroline T. Clark (Teaching and Learning)
Linden Murals of Empowerment: Public Art for Racial Justice (2021)
Njeri Kagotho (Social Work) • Guisela Latorre (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies) • Rebecca Persons (Social Work)
Public Narrative Collaborative (2019)
Lisa Florman (History of Art) • Sarah Iles Johnston (Classics) • Jim Phelan (English) • George Rush (Art)
Experiential Learning
Discovery Field Schools
Border Issues and Activism in Ohio (2021)
Faculty Leaders: Stephanie Aubry (Spanish and Portuguese) • Katherine Borland (Comparative Studies and Center for Folklore Studies)
Dance Brazil (2018)
Faculty Leaders: Daniel Roberts (Dance) • Crystal Michelle Perkins (Dance)
Dancing Connections and Communities (2019)
Faculty Leader: Nyama McCarthy-Brown (Dance)
Defining the Color Line: Race, Democracy and the Enslaved Community at James Madison’s
Monteplier (2018, 2019, 2020)
Faculty Leader: Hasan Kwame Jeffries (History)
Experimental Cinema in New York City (2019)
Faculty Leaders: Roger Beebe (Art) • Erica Levin (History of Art)
Human Rights on the Ground in New York City (2022)
Faculty Leader: Amy Shuman (English)
Livable Futures’ Field School (2019, 2021)
Faculty Leaders: Thomas Davis (English) • Mary Thomas (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies)
Midwest and Appalachia Field School: ART 5890 (2024)
Faculty Leaders: Dionne Lee (WGSS and Art) • Dani ReStack (Art)
Montgomery Field School (2025)
Faculty Leaders: Mindi Rhodes (Teaching and Learning) • Gloria Wilson (AAEP)
Ohio Folklore Field School Course (2019, 2021)
Faculty Leaders: Katherine Borland (Comparative Studies and Center for Folklore Studies) • Cassie Patterson (Center for Folklore Studies)
Student-Engagement Grants
Fostering Student Belonging Through Co-Design (2024)
Jeff Haase (Design) • Sebastien Proulx (Design)
Graduate Professional Development Grants
Anti-Racism in the Arts (2021)
Department of Dance • Award term: Three semesters
Archiving Black Performance (2021)
Department of Dance • Award term: Two semesters
Chinese Theatre Collaborative (2025)
Center for Languages, Literatures and Cultures • Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures • University Libraries • Award term: Three semester
Creatives at Barnett Center (2023)
Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise • Award term: Two semesters
Diverse Pathways Project (2025)
Department of English • Award term: Three semesters
Embodied Access (2024)
Department of Dance • Award term: Three semesters
English Undergraduate Studies Program (2022)
Department of English • Award term: Three semesters
Environmental History Center (2023 & 2024)
Department of History • Award term: Three semesters each cycle
Environmental History Initiative (2025)
Department of History • Award term: Three semesters
Lord Denney’s Players (2023 & 2024 & 2025)
Department of English • Award term: (2023) Two semesters (2024) Two semesters (2025)
Narrative Journal (2022)
Department of English • Award term: Three semesters
Native American and African American Citizenship and Civic Engagement, 1780-1950 (2024)
Department of History • Award term: Three semesters
Ohio Prison Education Exchange (2022)
Departments of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and African and African American Studies • Award term: Three semesters
Picturing Black History: A Partnership with Getty Images (2021, 2022)
Department of History • Award term: Two semesters per award
Promusica Columbus (2021, 2022, 2023)
School of Music • Award term: Two semesters per award
Publishing Industry Apprenticeship (2024)
The Ohio State University Press • Award term: Three semesters
Socially-Responsible Learning and Community Engagement (2022, 2023)
Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy • Award term: Three semesters per award
T&I Education, Language Access and Social Change (2021)
Department of East Asian Languages and Literature • Award term: Three semesters
Thinking Through the Value of Life by Its Treatment After Death (2024)
Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity • Award term: Three semesters
Matching Funds for Ohio State’s Seed Fund for Racial Justice
Arts-Based Anti-Racist Initiatives in High Schools (2020)
Kelly Stevelt (Wexner Center for the Arts) • Big Walnut High School • Joni Boyd Acuff (Arts, Administration, Education and Policy)
Increasing Black Women in Ohio Elected Office (2021)
Wendy Smooth (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Political Science)
Hidden Figures Revealed: Dynamic History and Narratives of Black Mathematicians at The Ohio State University (2020)
Ranthony A.C. Edmonds (Mathematics)
Racial Pathways (2021)
Stephanie Dodd (Ohio Campus Compact) • Clayton Hurd (Ohio Campus Compact) • Richard Kinsley (Ohio Campus Compact) • Zoë Plakias (Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics)
Maurice Stevens (Comparative Studies)
Using a STEAM Model to Develop Access Pipeline for Middle Grade Students in Columbus Metro Schools (2021)
Melvin Pascall (Food and Science Technology) • Nick White (Department of English
Open Grants
Bringing the Border to Columbus: A Virtual Symposium (2019)
Victor Espinosa (Sociology) • Danielle Schoon (Sociology / Anthropology)
Collaboration for Humane Technologies (2019)
Peter K. Chan (Design) • Norah Zuniga Shaw (ACCAD / Dance)
Collaborative Gaming Platform for Disabled Children and Their Families (2019)
Asimina Kiourti (Electrical Engineering) • Kyoung Lee Swearingen (Design) • Scott Swearingen (Design) Susan Thrane (Nursing)
The Global Mediterranean (2019)
Bob Holub (Germanic Languages and Literatures) • Dana Renga (French and Italian) • Barry Shank (Comparative Studies)
How the Arts and Humanities Can Benefit Our Wellbeing (2019)
Elizabeth B. -N Sanders (Design) • Paul Reitter (German) • Yvette Shen (Design)
Khasi Interfaces (2019)
Mark Bender (East Asian Languages and Literature) • John Low (Newark Earthworks Center)
Livable Futures (2019)
Thomas Davis (English) • Jennifer Suchland (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies / Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures) • Mary Thomas (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies) • Norah Zuniga Shaw (ACCAD / Dance)
Migration, Mobility and Immobility (2019)
Theodora Dragostinova (History) • Danielle Fosler-Lussier (Music) • Yana Hashamova (Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures) • Robin Judd (History) • Paloma Martinez-Cruz (Spanish and Portuguese) • Ryan Skinner (Music)
Uses of Narrative Theory (2019)
Katra Byram (German) • Jim Phelan (English)
Special Initiatives Grants
COVID-19 Grants
Audiences and Online Reception: Before and After COVID-19 (2020)
Harmony Bench (Dance) • Yana Hashamova (Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures)
• Hannah Kosstrin (Dance) • Danielle Schoon (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures / Sociology)
COVID Conversations: Life in a Time of Corona (2020)
Katherine Borland (Comparative Studies)
Cultural Presentation and the Mardis Gras Indians of New Orleans (2020)
Virginia Cope (English) • Tiyi Morris (African and African American Studies)
Dance in the Time of COVID-19 (2020)
Nyama McCarthy Brown (Dance)
Designing a Post-Pandemic Return to Campus (2020)
Rebekah Matheny (Design) • Stephanie Orr (Office of Distance Education and eLearning)
Designing for Public Health: Humanities and Arts Leading Transformation During COVID-19 (2020)
Adame Fromme (Design) • Hazal Gumus-Ciftci (Design) • Rebekah Matheny (Design) • Susan Melsop (Design) • Will Nickley (Design) • Sébastien Proulx (Design)
Documenting of Latinas/os/x in Ohio Stories During COVID-19 Through Performed Storytelling (2020)
Palo Pinillos Chávez (Spanish and Portuguese) • Elena Foulis (Spanish and Portuguese)
Investigating Human Dignity in Practice During the COVID-19 Crisis (2020)
Melissa Guadron (English) • Christa Teston (English)
Measuring Artists’ Challenges and Resilience After COVID-19 (2020)
Elizabeth Cooksey (Sociology) • Rachel Skaggs (Arts, Administration, Education and Policy)
Muted, Isolated and Displaced by Social Distancing (2020)
Eugenia Costa-Giomi (Music) • Crystal Perkins (Dance)
Pandemic Collaborative (2020)
Diane Brogan-Habash (Medicine) • Julia Nelson Hawkins (Classics) • Jennifer Olejownik (Medicine /Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services) • Elizabeth Weinstock (EquitasHealth / Columbus Veteran’s Administration / Franklin Correctional Center)
Pandemic Pedagogies: Precursors, Paradigms and Portents (2020)
Jim Harris (History) • Thomas McDow (History)
Poetry and COVID-19: A Collaboration Between Creative Writers and Environmental Scientists (2020)
Zoë Brigley Thompson (English)
Political Discourses During COVID-19 and the Impact on International Education (2020)
Zhiguo Xie (East Asian Languages and Literatures) • Cindy Xinquan Jiang (Office of International Affairs)
Quarantine Cookbook: Documenting Migrant Food Networks Under COVID-19 (2020)
Philip Gleissner (Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures) • Harry Kashdan (University of Pennsylvania)
Recovery Project: Actions of Survival, Archival of Resilience (2020)
Amrita Dhar (English) • Sona Kazemi Hill (English) • Margaret Price (English)
Talking in the Clinic: Barriers and Facilitators of Chronic Disease Adherence (2020)
Seuli Bose Brill (Medicine) • Gabriella Modan (Linguistics) • Nathan Richards (English)
Virtual Field Lab (2020)
Lauren McInroy (Social Work) • Maria Palazzi (Design)
What does Religion Sound Like in the Age of COVID-19 (2020)
Lauren Pond (Center for Study of Religion) • Isaac Weiner (Comparative Studies)
Indigenous Arts and Humanities
Ancient Indigenous Monuments and Modern Indigenous Art (2019)
Christine Ballengee Morris (Arts, Administration, Education and Policy) • Marti Chaatsmith (Newark Earthworks Center)
Indigenous Ohio: Ohio State and Native Arts: Humanities Past and Present (2019)
Cheryl Cash (Comparative Studies) • John N. Low (Comparative Studies) • Stephen Gavazzi (Human Sciences)
K’acha Willaykuna: Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Humanities (2019)
Elvia Andia Grageda (Spanish and Portuguese) • Alcira Dueñas (History) • Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros (Spanish and Portuguese) • Richard Fletcher (Arts, Administration, Education and Policy) • Megan Hasting (Center for Latin American Studies) • Eric J. Johnson (OSU Libraries) • Guisela Latorre (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies) • Michelle Wibbelsman (Spanish and Portuguese)
Race, Ethnicity and Social Justice Grants
Ohio State Prison Education Exchange Project (2019)
Tiyi Morris (African and African American Studies) • Mary Thomas (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies)
Transformative Access Projects: Moving from Inclusion to Equity (2019)
Evelyn Hoglund (Speech and Hearing) • Margaret Price (English) • Maurice Stevens (Comparative Studies)
Collaborators
Colleges, Schools and Offices
College of Arts and Sciences
College of Education and Human Ecology
College of Engineering
College of Medicine
College of Public Health
College of Social Work
Moritz College of Law
Knowlton School of Architecture
School of Environment and Natural Resources
School of Music
Office of Distance Education and eLearning
Office of Diversity and Inclusion
Office of International Affairs
Centers and Institutes
ACCAD
Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise
DESIS Lab
Humanities Institute
Kirwan Institute
Center for Bioethics
Center for Ethics and Human Values
Center for Ethnic Studies
Center for Folklore Studies
Center for Human Resource Research
Center for Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Center for Latin American Studies
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing
Center for the Study of Religion
Melton Center for Jewish Studies
Middle East Studies Center
Multicultural Center
Newark Earthworks Center
STEAM Factory
Departments
Department of African-American and African
—Studies
Department of Anthropology
Department of Art
Department of Arts, Administration, Education
—and Policy
Department of Astronomy
Department of Classics
Department of Comparative Studies
Department of Dance
Department of Design
Department of East Asian Languages and
—Literatures
Department of Education Studies
Department of Electrical Engineering
Department of English
Department of Evolution, Ecology and
—Organismal Biology
Department of French and Italian
Department of Geography
Department of Germanic Languages
—and Literatures
Department of History
Department of History of Art
Department of Linguistics
Department of Mathematics
Department of Near Eastern Languages
—and Cultures
Department of Philosophy
Department of Political Science
Department of Psychology
Department of Slavic and Eastern European
—Languages and Cultures
Department of Sociology
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Department of Speech and Hearing Science
Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies
Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality
—Studies
Educational Institutions
Bexley City Schools
Columbia University (New York City)
Columbus City Schools
Columbus School for Girls
Cornell University
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
King’s College (London)
London School of Economics
Michigan State University
Olentangy Schools
Tulane University
University of Cape Town
Libraries
Thompson Library Special Collections
University Archives
University Libraries
Museums
Columbus Museum of Art
COSI
Freedom Center Cincinnati
Montpelier Estate (Virginia)
Urban Arts Space
Wexner Center for the Arts
Ohio Community Partners
City of Columbus Public Safety
CleanTurn Enterprises (Columbus)
Columbus Veteran’s Association
Equitas Health
Franklin Correction Center
Greater Columbus Arts Council
Ohio Arts Council
Ohio Department of Mental Health
—and Addiction
Ohio Humanities Council
Our Lady of Guadalupe Center (Columbus)
Watch Me Grow (Columbus)
Westland Flea Market (Columbus)
WYSO (NPR affiliate for greater Dayton)
YMCA of Central Ohio (Columbus)
(Inter)National Partners
Albany Park Theatre Project (Chicago)
Common Ground Relief (New Orleans)
Reconstruction Inc. (Philadelphia)
Sokolow Foundation
Southern Poverty Law Center
EVENT SPOTLIGHT
Society of Fellows Symposium
PERFORMANCE
Black Girlhood: Care In/Justice
Imani Akita Junior, Westerville South High School
Vanessa Brobbey Senior, Westerville North High School
Mariah Chaffin Senior, Westerville North High School
Ellie Sheja Senior, Westerville North High School
Vianca Smith-E-Incas Senior, Licking Heights High School
Stephanie Power-Carter Professor, Department of Teaching & Learning
ROUNDTABLE
Care and In/Justice
(Moderator) Christa Teston Professor, Department of English
Akemi Nishida Associate Professor, University of Illinois
Mysheika W. Roberts Columbus City Public Health Commissioner
Tracie McCambridge Director of Art & Resilience, Wexner Center for the Arts
Priscilla R. Tyson City of Columbus Council Member
KEYNOTE
“Equity by Design”
(Moderator) Ange-Marie Hancock Executive Director, Kirwin Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
(Speaker) Harriet Washington Author, Educator, and Ethicist, Columbia University
ROUNDTABLE
Care As/Is Policy
(Moderator) Kedar Hiremath Associate Director, Chronic Brain Injury Program
Anne Trinh Director of Strategic Initiatives, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Evaluation Studies
Shameka Poetry Thomas Instructor, Center for Bioethics
Tasleem Padamsee Associate Professor, College of Public Health
This event took place on December 6, 2024, at the WOSU Ross Community Studio